Selection and Funding of Partners
Once a department, school, or center has been selected to participate in the TTSP program, the Chair and Graduate Director will be given a set of guidelines to assist them in describing the TTSP opportunity to their graduate students. From among the applicants, the Chair and Graduate Director will nominate two or three candidates for the position, who will be interviewed jointly by departmental faculty and at least one faculty member from ITG or the TRC.
Because budgets are limited, and because senior graduate students have the requisite knowledge of the discipline to serve as colleagues, the program assumes that TTSPs will be senior graduate students who have completed their coursework. Each Partner therefore receives a stipend and a waiver of research-only tuition and fees; the cost of the stipend and waiver are shared by the TTSP Program and the participating department, school, or center, as outlined in the Selection Criteria. The stipend is an amount consistent with the standard stipend for TAs in the Partner's home department, up to $17,000 per year. The TTSP also receives health insurance coverage.
Each Partner will hold the position for one to three years, ideally three years so that the school, department, or center could derive maximum benefit and continuity from the partner's work. Graduate Directors will, however, have to determine the appropriate length of tenure in each case.